css references
It's taken me a while to get used to CSS for web design. (1st ever webpage: 1995, 1st entirely CSS laid out page: last year) Part of the problem was that I just couldn't find anything useful. Googling just brought up the usual w3c pages and a whole bunch of very lightweight overview tutorials.
But, one of the great things about having started this new job of mine, is that I finally have coworkers and peers who are interested in the same sorts of things! Just today, I was browsing through some of their sites, and somehow hit the jackpot of excellent tutorials and resources. Yay for the internet: when you find one good thing, you find a whole bunch of related good things. After a quick read-through them, everything FINALLY started falling into place. Haha.
Max Design tutorials: Clear and awesome, especially the float one.
CSS browser bugs: answers to the problems you get.
A whole slew of resources and links
I played around a little bit with pushpin right away. (Now that I can test Safari at work, I saw these huge ugly borders around some images and wanted to fix them, so spiffed up things a bit while I was at it.) It's always been css-styled, so I changed linked images to have a border, and made non-linked images plain (except for the title image). I know that sounds sadly simple, and it was really very easy. I'll definitely be writing much better html & css styling from now on.
this week sure was fun
I spent the entire evening aimlessly surfing the web.
fun in a cart done
Finished tonight, due tomorrow. I kept the girl's head the same, but changed everything else (see to compare). Her coat and boots are my favorite parts. I kind of liked it as a line drawing better than when it is all colored in; I think it means I need to work on my coloring :p
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hoodie, paused
I know what you're all wondering. "What has happened to that adorable little hoodie for momoko?" Yes?
So, I was stupid. I attached the hood and got most of the way through attaching the zipper. And then I realized that I got the wrong sort of zipper. I was used to working with the kinds of zippers in pants and skirts, but guess what! For jackets, your zipper has to be able to separate fully! Hence the term, "separating zipper". I have given up for now. Especially since both my classes have final projects due next week, and I am nowhere near done.
So sad, zipper stuck together at bottom.
shiny bag
Look at what the amazing nokii made for momoko.
Did you see the metal rings attaching the handles to the bag? There's an outside pocket AND an inside pocket. What are the gingerbread girls made out of?
fun in a cart
Final project for fashion illustration: 2 figures, watercolor (i.e. photoshop). This is the drawing I'll be tweaking.
Things to fix for girl: bottom front of her coat, legs slightly off, maybe give her lace-up boots, add stripes and tassles to scarf, add stripes to socks & mittens.
Things to fix for boy: turn legs into profile view, give him shearling boots, make hand rest on cart, , make his legs profile, fix expression/gaze, add stripes to pants/shirt/scarf, fix top left head where it meets hat.
Any suggestions?
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twinkly blooms
It figures, that after slowly growing buds for two months, the darn thing picks the week I'm gone to bloom.
This mini orchid is an Oncidium Twinkle, aka Fragrance Fantasy (even though it doesn't smell like anything). Last time it bloomed was when I bought it in fall 03. It produced two spikes, but the flowers aren't as profuse as before ... maybe I should fertilize more often and repot them? Each flower is about the size of my pinky nail.
